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“Describe your favorite memory from high school.”

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by Elizabeth Phillips content editor

In our spin-off of Humans of New York, the Black & Gold Quarterly went into Central’s community in search of memories. Our mission was to find inspired humans, and through a variety of randomly selected staff members, we were about to find one commonality: nostalgia.

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Julie Puckett

“Well, I think my favorite high school memory didn’t happen in school, it was more about the time that I spent out of school with my friends. I can remember one particular Christmas, it was really snowy. We were tubing, and it just felt… I was older, I was a senior, and it felt like sort of the last time we would be together. I remember feeling the significance of that, the heaviness of that, and yet I was so incredibly happy at that moment in time. That’s probably one of the ones that stand out.”

Scott Purdy

“I would say my best memory from high school was winning districts for baseball. And we were the first team for Traverse City, well I went to Traverse City West, but we were the first team to win it in school history. That’s probably my best memory.”

Emily Howard

“So my class of peers was very engaged and we were all just so close. So junior year, our spirit theme was blue. We actually all stayed after school one day, like the whole junior class of our group, and we tie-dyed blue t-shirts. And because our theme for homecoming was ‘We didn’t start the fire’ kind of thing, and since we were blue, we made like ‘water’ tiedyed shirts to put out the ‘flames’ of the other classes which were red, orange, and yellow. So we had flames at the bottom and we were putting out the flames, so we were on top. And that year, we won the spirit jug, which is it’s own little thing there. [To get it] we have to be super spirited and enthusiastic, so we had the tshirts, we had the camaraderie, and the community, and then when we had our assembly, we had to cheer our Alpena cheer. We did it the best and the loudest, so we won, which never happens, because the seniors always win. It was the best. So I just really loved that whole homecoming week where we came together as a class and made t-shirts all together which was so fun and then came together and won the spirit jug.”